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Requesting new feature
by Darrell Anderson 26 May '24

26 May '24

I'm feeling more frustrated than stupid, but I cannot figure out how to request a new feature (or report a bug). I have four proposed Kicker wallpapers to submit. I logged into gitea, in the top left selected the 'Pull Requests' link, in the left side selected TDE/tdebase. I see a green New Pull Request button. I select the button and am greeted with a message, "These branches are equal. There is no need to create a pull request." I have no idea or memory what to do next or if I am even on the right track.

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KMAIL + COMPACTING FOLDERS?
by Chris M 26 May '24

26 May '24

Hi Friends! I have a question: We might of talked about this before, under a different subject and I just can't find the email we talked about it in. That should teach me a lesson that if I have a different question, I should make it a WHOLE new email, that way I can refer back to it. But anyways: Why do we have to compact folders in KMAIL? I never had to do that in Evolution. Evolution doesn't even have an option for compacting folders. Doesn't KMAIL and EVO use the same kind of mail storage? ========================================================= Trying to understand KMAIL + Thanks ahead of time! Chris CHRIS(a)CWM030.COM * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~

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Continuing the Kaffeine jitters
by dep 25 May '24

25 May '24

It is amazing how on the great, vast internet the amount of material has grown while the amount of useful material has shrunk both as a percentage and as an absolute amount. This unhappy fact is exacerbated by rise of conversation bureaucrats, not just the usual web cops but an actual bureaucracy of petit tyrants who, by God, are going to rule with an iron fist. (I actually think one of the great selling points of TDE is this list, which is free of such things. Anyone who remembers the KDE forums way back when would probably still shudder.) This makes tasks like searching for answers all the worse because half the time the search results for your exact question end up being moderators and their rumpswabs angry that the question was asked, rather than just answering the damn thing. I discovered the first day with PiOS that Wayland ain't soup yet. It is theoretically more elegant. So is the ramjet, but if you stick 'em on airplanes now they's gwan to be a whole lot of crashes. I'm beginning to think the same thing is true of Pipewire. Many applications do not play nicely with it. The translation layer seems a little flaky. It has been years since work was done on Kaffeine, and there wasn't any Pipewire then. VLC seems to grumble about it. And unlike X11, which was easy to start instead of Wayland, getting rid of Pipewire is a real pain. But it is looking more and more like the culprit. I'm going in -- look after my family if I don't return. dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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TDE and Internet connections
by Chris M 25 May '24

25 May '24

I've got a question: Why is it when you reboot Q4OS / TDE and log back in, Why doesn't TDE connect to the internet automatically, like it did in MATE or like any other DE would? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks, Chris OFF LIST: CHRIS(a)CWM030.COM * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram* ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~

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Anyone have any experience with Kaffeine?
by dep 24 May '24

24 May '24

I'm glad Bill is happy with no TV. I would not be. To wit: https://ofb.biz/safari/article/1203.html The Hauppauge TV tuner arrived, and while it was a little fiddly -- and the author of the user guide makes no distinction between important and unimportant -- I got Kaffeine running nicely, with nice, clear pictures, EPG, everything . . . except sound. Not a peep, but an occasional crackle, which is disconcerting. It seems as if Kaffeine is abandonware, and there is little online about it, so I am on my own unless someone here knows the application, or another app that can stream live local TV via a tuner dongle. Does anyone? dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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krdc scaling
by Darrell Anderson 23 May '24

23 May '24

Does krdc support automatic scaling or provide a way to configure automatic scaling? Seems I always have to select the Scale button to see the remote screen.

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Having trouble changing desktops RPi 5
by dep 22 May '24

22 May '24

This is embarrassing. I can't get TDE to start. Downloaded and installed uneventfully. Ran sudo update-alternatives --config-xsession-manager and selected /opt/trinity/bin/starttde from the list. Reboot, no joy. Per online information, edited /var/lib/AccountsServices/users/<my-user-name> to change XSession=LXDE-pi-x to first tde and when that didn't work TDE. Reboot. Still have LXDE. I'm clearly missing something. If anyone knows what it is, please tell me. And in any case, once the answer is found I'll write it up and submit it for possible inclusion in the docs. dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Complete TDE install
by Darrell Anderson 22 May '24

22 May '24

Which distro provides a full, complete TDE R14.1.2 install? Every single TDE package. Something that can be downloaded, installed to a VM, and install some kind of TDE meta package. Thanks.

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kmail and keyboard
by dep 22 May '24

22 May '24

hi, everybody . . . first, the discussion of kmail passwords has puzzled me a little. for *decades* i've set up kmail to store my password, and have not been prompted about it since. i vaguely remember being prompted for kwallet at one time or another, usually when logging in to Proton VPN, but that's not happened in a long time, either. in that i've had the same configuration for years, i can't remember what i did to bring this about. what i have encountered instead is another issue that might be kmail or it might be something else. it is sufficiently strange that it might be of interest, so i'll describe it. i use ProtonMail. i hate webmail, so am happy that there is an application, ProtonMail Bridge, that does the heavy lifting as to login, encryption, and so on. it logs into the server, and kmail logs into it. kmail goes to 127.0.0.1 for the mail. the bridge application goes out and uses the mile-long ProtonMail password to log in to the server. the bridge is supported for thunderbird and a couple of other mail clients of which kmail is not one, but the setup is pretty straightforward except for one thing. frequently -- not always, but often -- my kmail inbox gets not just the mail but phantom copies of it. in the same mail run it might get 20 messages with six of them seemingly doubled. one of the two is the email message, no problem, while the other one is blank. the blank one has peculiar aspects. for one thing, i can't delete it in the normal way. i delete it, but it doesn't go away. instead, it has a line struck through it in the message list. when i restart kmail later, it is now gone. if i haven't deleted it, it is still there. probably unrelated, every so often, maybe once a month, a mail check will cause an eruption of mail going back a couple months, and i get old mail all over again. as i said, this is probably not kmail-caused. i mention it because maybe someone here will say, "hey! i know what that is!" and mention something i've missed. sadly, for all its goodness Proton is happy to cling to the "that client is unsupported" excuse. another oddity involves my keyboard, which i like very much -- nice and loud -- but it is a USB keyboard. it behaves strangely: it works just fine, as now, but then after a few days it doesn't seem to register some keys and endlessly repeats others. but i don't think it's the keyboard, in that rebooting fixes it 100 percent of the time, for a few more days. any guesses? -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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Re: EVO to KMAIL
by c. marlow 22 May '24

22 May '24

In my last email I asked: " How do you delete those local folders to set up KMAIL as MAIL DIR?" It looks like the local folders that are there now, use .mbx format, because I see a COMPACT option, when you right click on the folders. I am also needing to know how do I set up a MAILDIR directory to copy over from Evolution to KMAIL? Thanks, Chris CM030(a)YAHOO.COM

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